If we thought the LA wildfires exposed how mismanaged California is, we haven’t seen anything yet.
This from frontpagemag.com.
The above meme should read: California Is Experiencing Tyrannical Difficulties.
More than a dozen countries make gasoline at state-owned refineries.
Russia, China, Venezuela, and Iran are four of them. Could California be next on the list?
And what do all of those places have in common?
Tyrannical regimes. Miserable lives for much of the population. High levels of migration. Radical politics. Sure, California belongs on that list.
California policymakers are considering state ownership of one or more oil refineries, one item on a list of options presented by the California Energy Commission to ensure steady gas supplies as oil companies pull back from the refinery business in the state.
For a state that hates oil and could not make money selling drugs (literally), what could go wrong if they try to run oil refineries?
Already, two California refineries have ceased producing gasoline to make biodiesel fuel for use in heavy-duty trucks, a cleaner-fuel alternative that enjoys rich state subsidies. More worrisome, the Phillips 66 refinery complex in Wilmington, just outside Los Angeles, plans to close down permanently by year’s end.
That leaves eight major refineries in California capable of producing gasoline. The closure of any one would create serious gasoline supply issues, industry analysts say. But both Chevron and Valero are contemplating permanent refinery closures…
California is known as a “gasoline island” lacking the kind of multistate logistics network through most of the continental U.S. that can help alleviate supply shocks. No pipelines exist to feed gasoline in from other states. Ocean shipments from the refinery-rich Gulf States are restricted by an antiquated federal law known as the Jones Act…
Further complicating matters: the special blends of gasoline required in California. Those required formulations have gone a long way toward reducing air pollution. But they also drive up gasoline prices and raise the risk of shortages, because little such gasoline is produced outside California.
Insurance companies are fleeing California. Refineries are fleeing California. Californians are fleeing California. But there are enough people in the state that a major energy crisis is entirely plausible.
It is not hard to find $6 a gallon gas in the state, but that could just be the beginning.
And the communist/globalist super-majority has lots of plans for getting all the remaining refineries to flee California.
The options list is disparate: Ship in more gasoline from Asia; regulate refineries on the order of electric utilities; cap profit margins; and many more.
The list was due to be transformed into a formal transition plan by Dec. 31, 2024, but six weeks later no plan has been issued. Therefore, it’s not yet clear what the state response will be if another refinery announces a shutdown this year or next.
Tell everyone to buy Teslas. Take over the refineries. It worked so well in Venezuela that what used to be a petro-power cannot even run refineries.
But that’s okay. California will hire only transgender ex-cons of color, tax the product as much as possible and then blame the subsequent disaster on global warming.
